Dictionary of Third World Theologies   Virginia Fabella, M.M. and R. S. Sugirtharajah, EDITORS The most comprehensive resource on theology from the Third World written by the theologians who have worked and live it.
May ISBN 1-57075-234-6 320pp. 6 x 9-1/4 Cross references and Bibliographies Hardcover $50.00

This essential reference work makes available in one volume the breadth and richness of the theological contributions of the peoples of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Pacific, and the minority and indigenous peoples of the world. Entries show how theology from the non-Western world has changed the language and contours of contemporary theology.

The editors commissioned theologians from the Third World to write more than 150 entries on themes from Christian theology and religious studies, including spiritualities, cultural and social issues, biblical interpretation, and theological categories. The entries are inclusive of geographical, cultural, and denominational/confessional variations and the contributors include members of the Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Mar Thoma (India) churches.

Contributors include Gustavo Gutiérrez, Chung Hyun Kyung, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Masao Takenaka, Elsa Tamez, Fernando Segovia, Virgilio Elizondo, Laurenti Magesa, Roberto Goizueta, Aloysius Pieris, Leonardo Boff, Ivone Gebara, María Pilar Aquino, Clodovis Boff, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, Tissa Balasuriya, Eleazar Fernandez and James H. Cone, among many others.

Virginia Fabella, a Maryknoll Sister theologian from the Philippines, is on the faculty of the Institute of Formation and Religious Studies in Quezon City, Philippines. She has authored and edited a number of books, including With Passion and Compassion. R. S. Sugirtharajah, a Sri Lankan theologian and biblical scholar, is a senior lecturer in biblical hermeneutics at the University of Birmingham, England.

Partial Sample Entry Art, Christian Even though Christianity was born in Asia, the expression of Christian faith in the Third World through art is a recent phenomenon because, until the twentieth century, Christianity developed primarily in Western countries. To be sure, ancient examples of Christian art exist in some countries of the Third World. At the Hanging Church in old Cairo, Egypt, for example, there is a Madonna with large eyes that dates from the fifth century, and the image of three wise men returning by boat, a popular theme of Ethiopian Orthodox churches, which believe Christianity was brought by a ship-wrecked youth from Tyre early in the fourth century. . . .

 

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